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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRepublicans’ real enemy is their base: What’s behind their new offer to Obama
Republicans real enemy is their base: Whats behind their new offer to Obamaby Simon Maloy at Salon
http://www.salon.com/2014/11/26/republicans_real_enemy_is_their_base_whats_behind_their_new_offer_to_obama/?utm_source=huffpost_politics&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=pubexchange_article
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The Republicans have a pitch for you. Its a very simple pitch: do what we want now, and maybe just maybe well consider the possibility of doing something you want later. No guarantees, no promises, and dont quote us on that, but rest assured that if you agree to what we want now, then well definitely think about it. Definitely maybe. Perhaps.
That was the offer House Republicans made to Barack Obama in anticipation of his executive action on immigration. Hold off on the unilateral action, they said, and there might be a chance that the Republican-controlled House (the same legislative body that denied George W. Bush immigration reform and killed the most recent bipartisan legislation) would defy all the odds and expectations and pass a bill of some sort. Obama, quite sensibly, refused their entreaties and plowed ahead. The GOP claimed that in doing so, Obama poisoned the well and precluded any chance of real reform passing an absurd and stupid argument that, not surprisingly, is very popular with pundits.
One of the political impacts of Obamas decision was to drive a huge wedge between the establishment Republicans who want to prove the GOP can govern and the hardcore conservatives who want to burn the government down to stop Obamas executive amnesty. This posed a big problem for Republican leaders who want to show that theyre really mad at Obama, but also want to avert the political suicide of a government shutdown. And so to get themselves out of this jam, Republican leaders are making basically the same pitch to conservatives that they made to Obama: give us the government funding we want now, and well see what happens next year.
Politico reported yesterday that the brilliant minds of the Republican leadership were coalescing around a novel approach to the immigration fight: fully fund most of the government until late 2015, but carve out a short-term continuing resolution for immigration enforcement related funding. That continuing resolution would expire at some point early next year, after the GOP takes control of Congress, at which point they can have the immigration funding fight that conservatives are pushing for. Theyve apparently taken to calling this hybrid monstrosity the Cromnibus CR, plus omnibus. And theyre doing this because everything, as a rule, is terrible.
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Republicans’ real enemy is their base: What’s behind their new offer to Obama (Original Post)
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Nov 2014
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(21,024 posts)1. Let's hope they live up
to this early promise. It would be a shame if Democrats help them out even one iota.